Apparel-hat.



No. 666,546. Patented lan. 22, |90I.

L. NAUNDORF.

APPAREL HAT.

n(A'pplix-.tou led Aug. 2. 1900.)

(lo Model.)

LAURA NAUNDORF, OF LEIPSIC-STTTERITZ, GERMANY.

APPAREL-HAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,546, dated January 22, 1901.

Application filed August 2,1900. Serial No. 25,689. (No model.)

To 'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA NAUNDORF, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at Leipsic-Sttteritz, in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hats, caps, or the like made from strips of paper or like material, which strips are plaited, so as to be capable of being sewed together in spiral or screw-threaded form. The plaited strips are secu red against stretching or attening as well during transportation as during working by suitable means, such as a blind stitch at the edge of a braided or woven tape or like strip sewed or secured to the plaited strip.

This invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a plaited strip provided with blind stitches. Fig. 2 shows a like strip provided with a braided strip. Fig. 3 shows a like strip provided with a woven strip. Fig. 4 shows a hat formed from such strips as above named. y

In carrying out the invention the materialsuch as paper, pasteboard, cellulose, or the likeis cut into strips, and the latter are then given any suitable form orappearance, as by being cut out or serrated or impressed with a suitable design. The strips are then run through between the rollers of a plaiting-machine to be transversely ruitled or tinted. Such plaited strips during transportation or working would again become fiat or lose their undulations, thereby becoming unsuitable for the manufacture of hats and the like. To avoid this objection, the undulation is iiXed or secured by means of a blind stitch b, run the length ofthe strip a, Fig. 1, orby a strip or tape of braided or woven material being sewed or secured to the plaited stri-p. In Fig. 2 is shown suoli a double strip, a braided strip b being sewed to the plaited strip a. In Fig. 3 is shown a double strip in which a woven tape b2 is sewed against the plaited strip d. By means of such a double strip it is practicable to manufacture hats, caps, and the like of desired shape and which resemble the usual straw hats. Headgear of this kind has the advantage over straw hats that it can be made of suitable color and that it is lighter than straw hats. By applying a coating of celluloid, varnish, or the like these hat-strips can be made waterproof, so as to be capable of being worn in the rain. The treatment with Celluloid, varnish, glue, and similar material also enables the strip to retain its form after pressure.. Hats made from such strips can be impregnated or starched, so a's not to lose the imparted form.

In talking of blind stitches, it is understood that the stitches simply engage the strip to lock the undulations; but such stitches do not serve Ifor attaching the strip.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or tinted and having said corrugations or liutings locked or secured against iiattening substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or iuted and having said corrugations or iutings locked or secured against flattening said strip being coated with a waterproofing material substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or fluted and having said corrugations or Iiutings locked or secured against iiattening said strip being treated with Celluloid or solution to be rendered bright and waterproof substantially as described.

4. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or tinted and having said corrugations or iiutings locked or secured against iiattening by stitches made to engage said strip substantially as described.

5. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or i'luted and having said corrugations or lutings locked or secured against flattening by a braided paper strip sewed to the corrugated strip substantially as described.

6. As a new article of manufacture a strip for hats, said strip being transversely corrugated or luted and having said corrugations or flutings locked or secured against flattening by a braided strip or tape sewed to the corrugated strip substantially as described.

7. A strip adapted for use in the manufac- IOO ture of hats, consisting of i strip of transversely corrugated or fluted paper provided with means to prevent the corrugations or fiutings from attenng, substantially as set forth. i

8. A strip adapted to use in the manufacture of hats, consisting of a transverselyeorrugated or uted paper provided with means to prevent the eorrugati'ons 0r utings from flattening and coated Wit-h a suitable Waterro proof material.

1n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LAURA NAUNDORF. Witnesses:

EDWARD BRESLAU, RUDOLPH FRICKE. 

